Special Cargo Raids

[Raptor013]

I have had my Special Cargo crate warehouses raided without any sort of notifications.  Is this normal?  Shouldn't I get some sort of pop up message or phone call?  Am I missing something?  Does anyone else have this issue?

[Thomas2026]

Yikes that sounds terrible. Usually it says Defend Business in big font across the screen and I get a call from the Assistant. 

 

Sometimes with MC businesses I will walk into my coke factory and it is totally empty and I have to set it up again. I swear I was never notified, maybe they happen while you are on another activity and the game just bugs out.

 

I usually stockpile crates on my second character for that reason as I dont use it often. 

[Timsalabimbo]

You are not alone:

 

[ChiroVette]

I don't know if it still works, as I haven't grinded crates in about a year. But I know you used to be able to simply force close GTA and re-open it, and my crates would still be there is I either failed to defend my Special Cargo warehouse, died while trying, or just didn't feel like it. I think you could even just switch sessions, if memory serves, but I'm not sure. If I got a warehouse raided, I just closed and restarted the game. Does this still work?

 

On topic, @Raptor013, how do you know you were getting raided then if there was no message? Did you just get the mission music and know something was going on? I think the same thing happened to me the other day with my nightclub, which strangely enough, got raided with less than a half full warehouse, something that has never happened to me before. I just assumed I missed Tony's call or something, but I was just sort of in the middle of a mission, and the only reason I knew was the mission music and I saw a bunch of red targets on my mini-map to retrieve the envelopes and phones from.

[RyuNova]

I sometimes suspect that it's done on purpose. I recently had about two million in my Nightclub, had not been raided for ages despite being a CEO the majority of the time, left the game running and put my controller down to go for a piss, came back and my Nightclub was being raided.

 

Tin foil hat time, but I do wonder if the game can detect when the controller has no input and times raids when it suspects people are AFK.

[ChiroVette]

Could be, @RyuNova. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of anti-AFK algorithm in the game. I'm sure Rockstar is none-too-happy about people being able to quit their CEO and go AFK solo, and maybe its just a way of sticking it to the players not savvy enough to end their CEO/MC. 

 

That said, I am really liking NOT having to grind crates the classic way. I have 5 warehouses and over this past weekend I finally dove into the new update a little, doing the first ULC mission and just playing around with the nightclub and stuff. But I didn't realize how easy it was during cool downs and such to just go to every one of my five large special cargo warehouses one by one and just get the staff to source for me. Soooooo much better than grinding crates, which I refuse to do anymore because of how tedious it is. But this literally takes 5 minutes whenever I think about it, and my warehouses are already filling up quite nicely from next to no work.

[RyuNova]

1 minute ago, ChiroVette said:

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of anti-AFK algorithm in the game.

 

Yea, that sounds less tin-foil hat than how I said it.

 

2 minutes ago, ChiroVette said:

That said, I am really liking NOT having to grind crates the classic way.

 

Opposite for me, I don't like the fact that after forty-five minutes I can come back and likely find only one Crate added to my warehouse. Special Cargo missions take at most ten minutes and are a guaranteed three Crates. For forty-five minutes I expect three Crates. There should have been two options; "Smash and Grab" and "Planned Raid". Smash and Grab would be what we have now but take half the time and give you between zero and three Crates and Planned Raid would be a guaranteed three Crates but take forty-five minutes.

[ChiroVette]

@RyuNova, I guess it's a perspective thing. I don't agree with you on the ten minutes. Sure it can be ten or even less with ONE vehicle, but I found that more than 50% of the time, I was getting three pieces of cargo and had to make three separate trips, which is about as tedious as a game can ever get in my book. I hated doing the crate missions. Once in a while, for fun, sure, but not grinding it out. But no matter how efficient I was, the average time for the one vehicle variety was about 7 minutes, and the average for three trips, especially since they always seemed to be far away lol was between 15 and 20. When I was in my grinding everything phase, I calculated anecdotally that it was about a 15 minute average, when factoring all types of missions you can get.

 

I honestly don't care if they bring me one crate every, single time, so long as I'm not the one that has to go get it. But it's pretty nicely randomized, plus I seem to be getting a bunch of the special items, I think a lot more than I was getting when I was grinding crates, which is cool.

 

I just don't agree with your "45 minutes to ten minutes" comparison, because even if I did average ten, it's still me that has to do it. Sh*t let the game do the work for me, and I will sell the content all five large warehouses hen they buff them to 2x for a week. That's over $22 million for literally doing nothing but going to a warehouse and pressing left on the D-Pad a whole bunch of times, at my leisure, and when I can be bothered to remember to actualy do it. lol

 

Edit: By the way, if you tell me you actually enjoy grinding the crates, then that ends the discussion right there. Games are supposed to be fun, and if you find crates fun, then that's what you should be doing. Plus the bonus is that it's a pretty profitable venture.

 

Edited August 29 by ChiroVette

[Jamwes]

4 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

I think you could even just switch sessions, if memory serves, but I'm not sure. If I got a warehouse raided, I just closed and restarted the game. Does this still work?

 

AFAIK yes, it still works. I think both restarting the game and changing works for crate raids and failures during the sell mission. I think only restarting the game works for MC business and nightclub raids and sell mission. Someone please confirm or correct me. It's been so long since I've worried about either.

[RyuNova]

2 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

I calculated anecdotally that it was about a 15 minute average

 

Even then, that's nine crates per forty-five minutes, vs potentially one.

 

I don't have any issue with three crates as I just the Thruster, as fast as a helicopter, no need to find a landing space, you can pick up crates in the Thruster and you can auto land back at the Office.

[discostu72]

4 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

On topic, @Raptor013, how do you know you were getting raided then if there was no message? Did you just get the mission music and know something was going on?

If you notice all of the job icons disappearing from the maps, then chances are you're being raided. This happened to me once last year and also just this past weekend. I was not CEO and had just loaded into the game a few minutes earlier. I was about to enter the corona for the hotring races when it's icon vanished along with every other job. I went to my only warehouse and sure enough there were guys with vans outside raiding the place.

[ChiroVette]

1 hour ago, RyuNova said:

 

Even then, that's nine crates per forty-five minutes, vs potentially one.

 

I don't have any issue with three crates as I just the Thruster, as fast as a helicopter, no need to find a landing space, you can pick up crates in the Thruster and you can auto land back at the Office.

 

I understand your point, and if all you're looking for is the fastest way to get it done, and you're willing to grind, or even like these source cargo missions, then your way is fine. But I hate, hate, hate the source missions, and NOT being in any rush to fill my 5 large warehouses, I can just let the game to 99% of the work for me, instead of me doing it all with the source missions. I can be making money in ten other ways or doing ten other things while the game does everything except for going to the warehouse and hitting left on my D-Pad. I am a little surprised that you aren't getting my point on this. I totally understand yours. You want it done quicker. Fair enough. I don't care about the speed of accumulation. Why on Earth would I do these missions when I don't have to, and more importantly, find them boring as all f*ck lol?

 

Plus, I DO NOT sell my stock as I fill them anyway. I always wait until a 2x Special Cargo week. So if it takes 3-4 weeks to fill five large warehouses with the game doing all the work for me, and it takes you, say a week, I would rather have it done for me even if it is 400 to 500% longer. Not to mention, while the game is doing all this work, I can be doing races, heists, jobs, selling bunker/nightclub goods, and a million other things.

Edited August 29 by ChiroVette

[RyuNova]

1 minute ago, ChiroVette said:

I am a little surprised that you aren't getting my point on this.

 

I do get your point. I use Lupe as well as Source Crates, and it's much faster. My point is that your way seems stubborn for the sake of being stubborn, like carrying fuel from the petrol station in a cup and pouring it into your car each time and then back again because you don't like traffic.

[ChiroVette]

2 hours ago, RyuNova said:

 

I do get your point. I use Lupe as well as Source Crates, and it's much faster. My point is that your way seems stubborn for the sake of being stubborn, like carrying fuel from the petrol station in a cup and pouring it into your car each time and then back again because you don't like traffic.

 

How is that metaphor even close to accurate? LMAO It takes me 5 minutes to go to all 5 of my warehouses, all pretty close together, to source between 5 and 15 crates for doing next to nothing. As opposed to 75 roughly 75 minutes to source 15 crates. The effort my way is so absurdly minimal compared to sourcing them myself, that I can't believe you actually think I'm the stubborn one here. I just do five minutes when I think about it or to waste a cool down timer.

 

To reiterate: I HATE doing crates, hate it with a passion. I mean, okay, if I do it for fun I would do THREE crates every three weeks before getting bored to tears, so your way I would never, and I mean never, fill up another 111 crate warehouse again. My way, I do next to NOTHING and when the 2x crates come around, I sell my stock for over $22 mill without grinding. Jeeze, my way I do it at my leisure without grinding out the mission. I am amazed that you are actually digging in on this. Does the term passive income mean nothing to you? Or are you going to use the same absurd "gas and walking" metaphor for my buying bunker supplies instead of stealing them every time? That is a more accurate metaphor, by the way.

 

I ALWAYS buy bunker supplies, unless I am totally bored and want to steal then, which is almost never.

 

Does anyone here actually see my point? If so, maybe you'll have better luck explaining this to him.

 

Edit: Holy  crap, the thought of grinding out THREE crates at a time for even one large warehouse, much less 5 (555 crates) makes me a little sick to my stomach if I am completely honest.

Edited August 29 by ChiroVette

[RyuNova]

21 minutes ago, ChiroVette said:

How is that metaphor even close to accurate?

 

Because that's how tedious your method sounds to me. You understand how mind-numbingly boring and absurd my metaphor is? That's what you are doing sounds like to me. Don't get me wrong, I am not judging, do as you please.

[ChiroVette]

5 hours ago, RyuNova said:

 

Because that's how tedious your method sounds to me. You understand how mind-numbingly boring and absurd my metaphor is? That's what you are doing sounds like to me. Don't get me wrong, I am not judging, do as you please.

 

Yeah, okay lol By the way? I was wrong about the 5 minutes to get my crew to source crates for me. I just did it now and timed myself, and it was 3:25 all in. On average my staff has been netting me 2 crates per source, and that's not even counting the SPECIAL super-whatever cargo that I don't even have to pay extra for. So yeah, let's see: 3.5 minutes to source ten crates on average, and not that money matters, but I am also payiong a fraction of the cost because the game only charges I think $7.5K, but that number may be wrong.

 

By the way, if I was sitting there and bypassing the cooldown timer, and doing these all one right after the other, I would agree with you. But what you don't seem to even care about is that the game is literally doing ALL the work for me, and I just do my 3+ minute rounds to all 5 warehouses while I am waiting for a cool down or after a bunker/nightclub sell mission, or after emptying my safes. That's why it's not tedious. Every few hours, or whenever I think about it, I spend a whopping 3+ minutes to restock my warehouses, then go and do other stuff that makes me lots of money, and is a helluva lot more fun that making THREE round trips from way out at sea to a warehouse for one source mission.

 

So you have fun grinding out those long ass boring source missions. Really, you are a credit to all grinders, you really are. It's noble work you're doing. Meanwhile, I will do heists, races, sell missions, and other stuff, and spend a whole 3 minutes restocking whenever the mood strikes me.

 

Wow, I am such a grinder!

Edited August 29 by ChiroVette

[RyuNova]

7 minutes ago, ChiroVette said:

So you have fun grinding out those long ass boring source missions. Really, you are a credit to all grinders, you really are. It's noble work you're doing. Meanwhile, I will do heists, races, sell missions, and other stuff, and spend a whole 3 minutes restocking whenever the mood strikes me.

 

*shrug*

 

Be as sarcastic as you want, but I have been nothing but respectful to you, it's not needed. That you went and timed it and then laid on the sarcasm shows me that my analogy hit home. You know what you are doing is absurd, and you are getting defensive. Seeing as there is no cooldown between Warehouses, in the time it takes you to, possibly, make fifteen Crates someone could make a guaranteed forty-five Crates.

 

I have no issue with how you play, you do you.

[ChiroVette]

3 hours ago, RyuNova said:

 

*shrug*

 

Be as sarcastic as you want, but I have been nothing but respectful to you, it's not needed. That you went and timed it and then laid on the sarcasm shows me that my analogy hit home. You know what you are doing is absurd, and you are getting defensive. Seeing as there is no cooldown between Warehouses, in the time it takes you to, possibly, make fifteen Crates someone could make a guaranteed forty-five Crates.

 

I have no issue with how you play, you do you.

 

 

LMAO I have no issue with how you play either, and for the record, you started it with this nonsense:

 

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My point is that your way seems stubborn for the sake of being stubborn, like carrying fuel from the petrol station in a cup and pouring it into your car each time and then back again because you don't like traffic.

 

All I did was to bust your balls back a little. Here's a thought: if you're gonna dish it out, no worries, but be a good sport there next time and know when someone is ribbing you back.

 

To be serious a second, though, you still think your time argument matters? Yes, it takes the game longer to do my work for me than it would take me to grind it out myself. Duh. How is that even relevant? I don't care if it takes the game three hours to source crates for me instead of 45 minutes it takes now with the new update. Because now I don't have to do it myself  while the game is doing my work for me, I can spend my time doing fun things in the game I do actually find fun.

 

Edit: By the way, just as a sort of an olive branch, I know you were f*cking with me with that comment I quoted. It was even a little funny. But riddle me this: why do do many people on the Internet go from that kind of ball-busting right to righteous indignation when your opponent does it back to you?

Edited August 30 by ChiroVette

[JumpingKentFlash]

Guys….. is it possible to bypass the timer?

[RyuNova]

6 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

LMAO I have no issue with how you play either, and for the record, you started it with this nonsense:

 

 

So yes, I was right, my analogy did get under your skin. It's not my fault that you saw the absurdity of what you are doing and got defensive.

 

6 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

All I did was to bust your balls back a little. Here's a thought: if you're gonna dish it out, no worries, but be a good sport there next time and know when someone is ribbing you back.

 

 

Yes, the old "it's just a joke". I was nothing but respectful, you were the one who decided to ooze sarcasm and now have moved on to "why are you mad?"

 

But alas, this is pointless, I wish you the best in your GTAO shenanigans.

 

7 minutes ago, JumpingKentFlash said:

Guys….. is it possible to bypass the timer?

 

Not that I know of, we had x2 speed the other week.

[ambi3nt]

14 minutes ago, JumpingKentFlash said:

Guys….. is it possible to bypass the timer?

Only by staying under threshold, which is not exactly amazing for cargo. With these stealth raids going on just have map icons enabled and if jobs randomly disappear from map without you doing anything else (or some actual notification about something else), change session asap. it will end cargo raid without losses.

Edited August 30 by ambi3nt

[ChiroVette]

1 hour ago, JumpingKentFlash said:

Guys….. is it possible to bypass the timer?

 

I don't think so. But which timer? Are you talking about sourcing them yourself and having to wait a few minutes to start another source mission? Or are you talking about having your assistants source them for you? If it's the latter, no, I don't think there is a way. But if you are trying to source and collect them yourself, there is an easy way. Just buy a second or even third warehouse. Back over a year ago when I was actively grinding the crap out of the special cargo, I bought 5 large warehouses. If you alternate between them, you effectively bypass the cooldown timers.

 

But think of it like this. The source missions now are insanely easy to do when you ask your assistants in each warehouse to do them. If you could bypass the timer, you could theoretically fill up give large warehouses in like an hour or two. I know that it takes me about 3 minutes to get my assistants to source them for me if I stop at all 5 warehouses. I mean, it's so crazy easy and effortless, if you could bypass that cooldown timer, then you could be making tens of millions of dollars every hour or two. I seem to get an average of two-crates per assistant source. That means if you have 5 large warehouses, or a total of 555 crates to fill all five for a whopping payout for easy sell missions, then on average you would need 277.5 source missions if you have your assistants do it for you.

 

Imagine for a second I wanted to grind this out. If it takes me 3 minutes to do all 6 warehouses at an average of 2 crates per assistant-source. Just divide 277.5 by 3 to get how many times I would have to do my 5-warehouses loop. If I could bypass this cooldown timer, I would have all 5 warehouses filled in 55.5 minutes.

 

But if you're a real working class hero, like @RyuNova, and want to spend weeks of your life grinding out these warehouses with your own sweat, then you can absolutely bypass the cooldown timer. When I was actively grinding out these cargo warehouses, I had a system. I would start with the southeast one in Cypress. Four of the ones I own are like all in one line south to north practically in a straight line, going toward the casino, and the 5th is the odd man out, in Vinewood. I would start with one in Cypress and work my way up one 3-crate source mission at a time, until I finally got to Vinewood, then I would start over. I never had a cooldown timer effect me, because by the time I got to all five warehouses, and was ready to start over again in Cypress, it was sometimes an hour or more, since these 3-crate missions take anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 to complete, depending on if you get ONE land vehicle with all three crates or have to make three separate pickups/dropoffs.

 

So if the average is, say around 12 minutes per 3 crates, then that's an hour before you are back at your first warehouse, and the cooldown timer is only a few minutes.

 

Again, they will NEVER let you bypass the cool down timer on your assistants collecting them for you! That would be crazy. You could easily grind out multiple times what you could make doing solo Cayo heists over and over again, and even that the nerfed.

Edited August 30 by ChiroVette

[RyuNova]

7 minutes ago, ChiroVette said:

But if you're a real working class hero, like @RyuNova

 

You're still being sarcastic. You did not need to mention me, your post would have been no different, but you did which only reinforces my point that you see the absurdity my analogy pointed out, and it's got under your skin.

Edited August 30 by RyuNova

[ChiroVette]

31 minutes ago, RyuNova said:

 

You're still being sarcastic. You did not need to mention me, your post would have been no different, but you did which only reinforces my point that you see the absurdity my analogy pointed out, and it's got under your skin.

 

  

 

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 @JumpingKentFlash, sorry, my math above was wrong. It would take a little more time. Assuming you DO NOT want to be a working class hero about it and decide to do all the work yourself, and you get an average of ten crates in three minutes like I get, it would be about 100 crates every 30 minutes or so. You would then have to grind this out for a little over 2.5 hours in total; But still, compare that with sourcing them all yourself, doing about 15 minutes per 3 crates, and assuming you lose none by accidentally blowing them up. It would take 37 source missions per 111 crate warehouse. it would average about 555 minutes or 9.25 hours per warehouse, which would be approximately 46.25 hours (REAL TIME!) of your own work to do five. large warehouses.

 

Plus, remember that the game charges you less if you have your assistants source them for you. If you pay $7,500.00 for an average of 2 crates per source (it is variable between 1 and 3 crates) or pay a flat $18K for sourcing three yourself, you are spending a small fortune filling up your warehouses, a lot more if you do all the work yourself, for some strange reason! LMAO the game rewards you for being lazy and making your assistants do it. I wonder if this is an oversight in the update and will be patched? I mean, if you want to be a working class hero, and grind this all out yourself, shouldn't you pay less than someone like me who refuses to grind this out? Here is an interesting stat I just calculated:

 

Assuming you lose zero crates and source/grind them all yourself, the cost is $666K per warehouse or $3.33 Million for 5 full warehouses. Yet, if you have your assistants do it, and maintain an average of 2 crates per source, it costs around $11,250.00 per 3 crates  (3,750.00 x 3 = $11,250.00) which comes out to $371,250.00 per large warehouse or $1,856,250.00 for 5! As much as I like to bust on righteously indignant grinders, that kind of doesn't seem fair to me. I do almost NONE of the work and pay a little more than half the money than a grinder. If I can fill my warehouses with so little effort, in all fairness, shouldn't I have to pay more than the average working class hero?

 

Edit: I like your name, by the way! The Stones are a great band!

Edited August 30 by ChiroVette

[JumpingKentFlash]

41 minutes ago, ChiroVette said:

 

I don't think so. But which timer? Are you talking about sourcing them yourself and having to wait a few minutes to start another source mission? Or are you talking about having your assistants source them for you? If it's the latter, no, I don't think there is a way. But if you are trying to source and collect them yourself, there is an easy way. Just buy a second or even third warehouse. Back over a year ago when I was actively grinding the crap out of the special cargo, I bought 5 large warehouses. If you alternate between them, you effectively bypass the cooldown timers.

 

But think of it like this. The source missions now are insanely easy to do when you ask your assistants in each warehouse to do them. If you could bypass the timer, you could theoretically fill up give large warehouses in like an hour or two. I know that it takes me about 3 minutes to get my assistants to source them for me if I stop at all 5 warehouses. I mean, it's so crazy easy and effortless, if you could bypass that cooldown timer, then you could be making tens of millions of dollars every hour or two. I seem to get an average of two-crates per assistant source. That means if you have 5 large warehouses, or a total of 555 crates to fill all five for a whopping payout for easy sell missions, then on average you would need 277.5 source missions if you have your assistants do it for you.

 

Imagine for a second I wanted to grind this out. If it takes me 3 minutes to do all 6 warehouses at an average of 2 crates per assistant-source. Just divide 277.5 by 3 to get how many times I would have to do my 5-warehouses loop. If I could bypass this cooldown timer, I would have all 5 warehouses filled in 55.5 minutes.

 

But if you're a real working class hero, like @RyuNova, and want to spend weeks of your life grinding out these warehouses with your own sweat, then you can absolutely bypass the cooldown timer. When I was actively grinding out these cargo warehouses, I had a system. I would start with the southeast one in Cypress. Four of the ones I own are like all in one line south to north practically in a straight line, going toward the casino, and the 5th is the odd man out, in Vinewood. I would start with one in Cypress and work my way up one 3-crate source mission at a time, until I finally got to Vinewood, then I would start over. I never had a cooldown timer effect me, because by the time I got to all five warehouses, and was ready to start over again in Cypress, it was sometimes an hour or more, since these 3-crate missions take anywhere from 5 minutes to 20 to complete, depending on if you get ONE land vehicle with all three crates or have to make three separate pickups/dropoffs.

 

So if the average is, say around 12 minutes per 3 crates, then that's an hour before you are back at your first warehouse, and the cooldown timer is only a few minutes.

 

Again, they will NEVER let you bypass the cool down timer on your assistants collecting them for you! That would be crazy. You could easily grind out multiple times what you could make doing solo Cayo heists over and over again, and even that the nerfed.

I’ve just never done it before. So when you say assistant, do you mean the people standing in the warehouse as per the last update? Doesn’t it take 48 minutes for them to bring 1-3 crates?

[ChiroVette]

24 minutes ago, JumpingKentFlash said:

I’ve just never done it before. So when you say assistant, do you mean the people standing in the warehouse as per the last update? Doesn’t it take 48 minutes for them to bring 1-3 crates?

 

I thought it was 42, but yes whether your time or mine is right, it takes the amount of time to bring you the crates before your cooldown timer expires and you can get them to go out again. Have you done crates the old fashioned way? By that, I mean sourcing them yourself from your office, the Terrobyte, or the Master Terminal in your arcade.

[Jamwes]

22 hours ago, ChiroVette said:

But I hate, hate, hate the source missions, and NOT being in any rush to fill my 5 large warehouses, I can just let the game to 99% of the work for me, instead of me doing it all with the source missions.

 

The fact you have 5 large warehouses tells me all I need to know about you and crate missions. You must've done way more than your fair share of them and have earned the hate for the missions. I assume you have the 1000 mission trophy too. I had gotten to the point where I hated doing the missions with my two warehouses. They become tedious if you grind them back to back for many days/weeks/months. What cured me was taking a break from the game for a couple years. Now I don't mind them again because I don't do them as a money maker. I'll fill both mine to the 70% range then wait for the x2 bonus to top them off and sell. It's not terrible if I'm listening to audio books or podcasts or something. Lupe and crew would be a good way to get to the 70% on 5 warehouses over many weeks/months. It's just something to do when you have a break in the action and are on that side of the map. It's cool that some people enjoy grinding crates, but these days there's enough other things to do in this game that pay just as good or better that grinding crates over and over and over isn't worth it if you don't enjoy the missions.

 

To be honest, Lupe and the two new (hard) missions breathed life into running crates for me. I didn't mind filling my warehouses this last time, one to full for the double bonus then both to 70%. As terrible of a mission the swimming one is, it breaks up the sameness of all the other missions. The autoshop one is great when it's right next to the warehouse you're delivering too. I just wish both of those gave an extra bonus crate because they are extra effort.

 

To stay on topic, I haven't had my warehouse raided in many years. I either fill to 70% or will plan to complete and sell in one long play session.

[ChiroVette]

32 minutes ago, Jamwes said:

 

The fact you have 5 large warehouses tells me all I need to know about you and crate missions. You must've done way more than your fair share of them and have earned the hate for the missions.

 

 

Hahahaha tell me about it! I remember a couple of 2x special cargo weeks that snuck up on me, and how I scrambled to actually grind out 5 large warehouses so I can sell them all for a cool 22+ Million. By the way, it isn't so much that I hate them. They can be fun, if I do them every once in a while. I can even do a couple in a row, if I'm really bored. But the thought of grinding out even ONE of those warehouses makes me throw up in my mouth a little. This new way is soooooooo much better. I kind of did a rough estimate in my head that if I only do 2 rounds, at three minutes each whenever I go into a GTAO lobby, and say it's no more than once a day, taking three minutes of a break doing something or waiting out another cool-down timer or something. So if I spend a mere 6 minutes a day, merely visiting each warehouse twice in a session, it would probably take me about 25-30 days of no effort at all to fill all 5 of my warehouses.

 

To me, that's the deal of the century!

 

32 minutes ago, Jamwes said:

 

I assume you have the 1000 mission trophy too.

 

 

I honestly don't know. I don't really keep abreast of my trophies. It's weird, because I am a total completionist in GTA games, but Trophies/Achievements have simply never held any real interest to me. Well, other than the little pop-up cookie you get when you are awarded one. But I couldn't tell you what trophies I have or don't without looking.

 

32 minutes ago, Jamwes said:

 

 I had gotten to the point where I hated doing the missions with my two warehouses. They become tedious if you grind them back to back for many days/weeks/months. What cured me was taking a break from the game for a couple years. Now I don't mind them again because I don't do them as a money maker. I'll fill both mine to the 70% range then wait for the x2 bonus to top them off and sell. It's not terrible if I'm listening to audio books or podcasts or something.

 

 

And let me be clear: These are NOT boring missions in and of themselves. They are as fun as anything else in the game. If I don't pass the grind threshold with them. There are soooooooo many things to do in this game, I can see myself getting an urge too grind out a few crate source missions (maybe one or two) say only once every three to four weeks. They aren't bad unless I grind them. I mean at some point of the game, you realize that you're still doing the same things as you are in other missions. Driving, flying, shooting, going point-A to point-B, dropping stuff off, etc. So I am not against EVER doing them. Just not to grind out a warehouse. Just be aware that some of my posts were a little touch of hyperbole as part of mocking another member a little over the past two pages. I don't hate the missions nearly that much.

 

32 minutes ago, Jamwes said:

To be honest, Lupe and the two new (hard) missions breathed life into running crates for me. I didn't mind filling my warehouses this last time, one to full for the double bonus then both to 70%. As terrible of a mission the swimming one is, it breaks up the sameness of all the other missions. The autoshop one is great when it's right next to the warehouse you're delivering too. I just wish both of those gave an extra bonus crate because they are extra effort.

 

To stay on topic, I haven't had my warehouse raided in many years. I either fill to 70% or will plan to complete and sell in one long play session.

 

I think I am going to try slowly grind up the 5 warehouses to full, without doing the missions, or at least not doing more than one or two every few weeks for the variety. If my warehouse(s) gets raided, I will just switch session or actually just go and defend the warehouse. Then I will wait for the 2x buff and sell it all, even though I really have ZERO need for money in this game. It's just soooooo effortless to visit my warehouses every once in a while, do nothing but press left on the D-Pad, and in less than a month I have 22+ Million worth of stock? Seriously, what's the catch?

Edited August 30 by ChiroVette

[ACR]

Some advice, if you can't enter any business or casino/car meet chances are you're being raided and that can happen even if you're not CEO i think, it's just silent raid. If you notice this switch session immediately and it's all good. 

[ChiroVette]

@ACR I didn't know you could be raided if not a CEO/MC-Pres. Is that new with the update?